The Laughing Corpse

Pages: 293
Published: 1994
Language: English

Anita Blake is a necromancer and vampire hunter who finds herself in the crosshairs of a powerful voodoo priestess. When a millionaire offers her a fortune to raise a centuries-old zombie, Anita refuses, only to realize that someone else is willing to do the dirty work. Now she must stop a killing spree that threatens to expose the darkest corners of the supernatural world.

Prose complexity: 4/10

Dark Gritty Tense Atmospheric

Morally Grey Anti-Hero

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Laurell K. Hamilton

Laurell K. Hamilton (born Laurell Kaye Klein, February 19, 1963, in Heber Springs, Arkansas) is an American fantasy and romance writer regarded as one of the founding voices of urban fantasy. She is best known for two long-running series: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter, about a professional zombie raiser, vampire executioner and supernatural police consultant in a fictional St. Louis, and Merry Gentry, about a private detective who is also a princess of the Unseelie court of Faerie. Her debut novel...